Sgt. Lonnie Mills said officers, responding to a shooting, found the victim, who was in his 20s, dead at the scene when they arrived at Roosevelt Gardens in the 700 block of Lincoln Court about 4:15 p.m.

Mills said he had been involved in a dispute with another man outside one of the buildings before shots were fired with multiple witnesses in the area. The shooter fled south on foot through the apartment complex.

The sergeant described the gunman as being approximately 24 years old with dreadlocks that go back on his head who was wearing a black shirt and pants.

Charles Broward & Dan Scanlan

Man pleads guilty to child pornographyA 34-year-old Savannah, Ga., man pleaded guilty Tuesday in Jacksonville to a federal charge of sending a notice over the Internet to produce and receive child pornography.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Stephen Joseph Woods was arrested in November as part of an online sting operation conducted by deputies from Volusia and St. Johns counties.

The deputies made contact with Woods posing as a 14-year-old girl. He told the “girl” he could teach her how to have sex and offered to produce videos of her engaged in sexual conduct, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

Woods was arrested at a St. Augustine motel where he had gone to meet with the girl. He now faces up to 30 years in federal prison with a mandatory minimum of 15 years.

Charles Broward

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Prowler call, then man found deadPolice responding to a call Monday about a prowler found a Palatka man dead on the front porch of a residence in the 700 block of Oak Street.

Jerry Lee Mattear, 57, did not live at the house where he was found about 10 p.m. and may have been homeless, though he did stay in the neighborhood, said spokesman David Parsons of the Palatka Police Department.

Mattear was unresponsive and declared dead by rescue workers. Parsons said police do not have a cause of death and were awaiting an autopsy Tuesday. He said foul play is suspected.